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" Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and, the tenor of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he... "
Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is prefixed ... - Page xx
by William Shakespeare - 1804
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Miscellaneous pieces

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the. /tenour of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him...select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in \j Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of ...

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 pages
...real power is shewn in the progress of the fable, and the tenor of the dialogue — and that be who tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Ilierocles, who, when be offered bis bouse to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. Though...
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Literary gems [ed. by J.S.].

Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenour of his dialogue: and he that tries to recommend him by...sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. . : J * ...•! It will not easily be imagined how much Shakspeare excels in accommodating his sentiments...
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Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 576 pages
...of particular passages, but by the progress of the fable and the tenour of his dialogue ; and that he that tries to recommend him by select quotations...sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.'' Dr. Farmer has ascribed Titus Andronicas to Kyd, and placed it on a level with Locrine ; but it appears...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus ...

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 572 pages
...tenonr of his dialogue ; and that he that tries to recommend him by select quotations will succeed Jike the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his...sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen." Dr. Farmer has ascribed Titus Andronicas to Kyd, and placed it on a level with Locrine ; but it appears...
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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ...

sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...Shakspeare, that to attempt to recommend him by select extracts would be but to follow the example of the pedant in Hierocles. who, when he offered his...sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. Many of the passages in it form matter of continual quotation for their eloquence ; and few of its...
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Proceedings ... from ... 1819, to January, 1829 [ed.] by a member of the club

Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 pages
...not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him...pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house for sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. »###**##*# " This, therefore, is the praise...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 20

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 798 pages
...he that tries to recommend him, by select quotatic *s, will succeed like the pedant in II ˇerodes, LMLNLOL M4K5K K7K8K M O$M P PHL P P<M M LxPyP P OSN M O1LLKMKNK OPKQKRK MTKFMVK*L+L, Upon every other stage the universal ˇwent is love, by whose power all good aud evil is distributed,...
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The Unique: Or Biography of Many Distinguished Characters: with Fine Portraits

George Smeeton - Biography - 1830 - 278 pages
...splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenor of his dialogue ; and ho that tries to recommend him by select quotations,...sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. ' Upon every other stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed,...
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The Unique: Or Biography of Many Distinguished Characters: with Fine Portraits

George Smeeton - Biography - 1830 - 282 pages
...not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him...like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered iiis house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. ' Upon every otfcer stage the universal...
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